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Dota 2’s The International Tournament Returns In October, And It Has A Bigger Home
Valve is moving it to a bigger venue.
By QuintLyn Bowers - 3 weeks agoDota 2 Gets A “Huge” Update In "New Frontiers" That Even Expands The Game's Map
The update expands the map by 40% and even introduces a new hero attribute type.
By QuintLyn Bowers - 1 month agoPlayers Spent Over $100 Million On CS:GO Cases Last Month, A New Record
About 39.5 million loot boxes were opened throughout March 2023, right after Valve announced Counter-Strike 2.
By Matthew D'Onofrio - 1 month agoCS:GO Breaks All-Time Peak Player Records By A Mile Ahead Of Counter-Strike 2 Beta Launch
According to Steam, 1,519,457 players were online at the same time — 200,000 more than the previous milestone.
By Matthew D'Onofrio - 2 months agoIt’s Official, Counter-Strike 2 Is On The Way, And Current CS:GO Players Will Be Keeping All Their Stuff
It will be a free upgrade to CS:GO.
By QuintLyn Bowers - 2 months agoCounter-Strike 2 Seemingly Confirmed Real, Beta Coming Soon
According to anonymous sources, the sequel to Counter-Strike is "about ready to go."
By Matthew D'Onofrio - 2 months agoDota 2 "Honeypots" Over 40,000 Cheating Accounts And Follows Up With Bans
Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.
By Aspen Pash - 3 months agoUPDATED: Team Fortress 2 Takes Advantage Of New "Blog Post" Technology To Announce New Content Coming This Year
It's been about 5 years since the last update featuring new content.
By Michael Byrne - 3 months agoSpeculation Abounds As Steam DB Notices Valve's Addition Of A "Valve Event Upload" Config App
Config app uploads can only be created by Valve, fueling speculation on an upcoming announcement.
By Michael Byrne - 4 months agoMicrosoft Offers Sony's Proposed 10-Year Call Of Duty Deal To Nintendo And Steam: Nintendo Accepts, Valve Says "Not Necessary"
Microsoft takes the opportunity to jab Sony saying it's more interested in fighting than an actual deal.
By Michael Byrne - 5 months agoDOTA 2 Has A New Hero, Muerta, Arriving In Early 2023
“Pierce the veil between the living and the damned”
By Aspen Pash - 7 months agoTeam Fortress 2 Receives Another “Exploits And Stability” Update
Can TF2 really be saved?
By Aspen Pash - 10 months agoValve Launches Update To Fix Issues Highlighted By The “Save TF2” Campaign
The update takes aim at bots of all kinds.
By QuintLyn Bowers - 11 months agoValve Finally Responds To Player Frustrations On Bots In Team Fortress 2, Claims To Be "Working To Improve Things"
"TF2 community, we hear you!"
By Anthony Jones - 1 year agoBethesda Launcher To Shut Down In May; Games Will Transfer To Steam
Detailed instructions on how to transfer save files will arrive in April.
By Jason Winter - 1 year agoSteam Is Unavailable In China, But It's Probably Not The Government's Fault
International Steam client was reportedly targeted by a "DNS cache poisoning attack."
By Jason Winter - 1 year agoTop 5 Free to Play Weekly - New World Banning Problems & Titanfall 2's Ash In Apex Legends Ep 485
Titanfall 2 fans get some love in Apex Legends, too!
By Marlowe Ethos - 1 year agoValve Boots Blockchain/Cryptocurrency/NFT Titles Off Steam(UPDATE: But Epic Games Will Take Them!)
No F***ing Thanks or Newell Flags Transactions?
By Jason Winter - 1 year agoValve Halts Ticket Sales To Next Week's Dota 2 International, Will Offer Refunds
Went on sale September 22.
By Jason Winter - 1 year agoModders Are Giving Team Fortress 2 A Facelift With The Engine Used For Half-Life: Alyx
Team Fortress 2 has been around for about 14 years now, and while it's really not suffering visually like a lot of games that age do, thanks to the art style, it could probably use a little sprucing up.
By QuintLyn Bowers - 1 year agoValve Announces Location And Dates For $40+ Million Dota 2 International
Valve has been preparing for the return of the Dota 2 International for a while now, even announcing new ways for fans to support the event back in May.
By QuintLyn Bowers - 1 year agoCS: GO Is Losing Players, But That's Probably Intentional
Let's start this off by saying one thing: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is still huge.
By Jason Winter - 1 year agoTeam Fortress 2 Issues Patch And Sets A New High For Concurrent Players
Team Fortress 2, which launched in 2009, has just hit its all time peak concurrent player count.
By Jason Winter - 1 year agoCS:GO Free Accounts No Longer Have Access To Ranked Matches
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has become a little less free-to-play.
By Jason Winter - 1 year agoAs The Dota 2 International Returns. Valve Introduces A New Way For Fans To Support Teams
Because time has no meaning now, it's probably easy to forget that we've gone a longer period of time without things like in-person video game tournaments.
By QuintLyn Bowers - 2 years agoValve's Dota 2 Documentary, "Free To Play," Now Available On Netflix
Seven years ago, Valve released Free to Play, a documentary about the trials and triumphs of three professional Dota 2 players as they ramped up for the 2011 International tournament.
By Jason Winter - 2 years agoTeam Fortress 2 Bots Are Now Into Extortion And Worse
Team Fortress 2 is practically abandonware at this point, so about the only time we hear about it is when something bad is happening.
By Jason Winter - 2 years agoEpic Loses Hundreds Of Millions Per Year On EGS, But That's Likely Part Of The Plan
Epic, and the Epic Games Store, is going roughly half a billion dollars in the hole to compete with Steam.
By Jason Winter - 2 years agoValve Announces New Features To Help Newbie Dota 2 Players
So, it looks like the Dota 2 community aren't the only ones thinking the new Netflix anime series will be bringing in new players.
By QuintLyn Bowers - 2 years agoEight-episode Anime DOTA: Dragon's Blood Now Streaming On Netflix
The DotA anime series that we were told would be showing up on Netflix in March has -- surprise!...
By Jason Winter - 2 years ago